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Nancy Mitchell

How Reckoned

O toad, O blue doe 
             eye, O silver fox head

smirking, spirits is she 
            still unworthy, unfit

to sit among you―
           she with the white horse’s

breath still warm and steady 
           between her breasts,

her mother’s ashes 
           still smoldering in her hand?




Nancy Mitchell, a 2012 Pushcart Prize recipient, is the author of two volumes of poetry: The Near Surround (Four Way Books, 2002) and Grief Hut (Cervena Barva Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Agni, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, and Green Mountains Review, and are anthologized in Last Call (Sarabande Books), The Working Poet (Autumn House Press) and The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2013. Mitchell teaches at Salisbury University and serves as the Associate Editor of Special Features for Plume.





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